EMOTION AND AFFINITY SCALE

The emotional scale refers to the subjective feelings of the individual; the affinity scale refers to his relation with other people. The affinity scale may refer, at any particular time, to just one, or to a small number of people. But as affinity is suppressed repeatedly, the individual will begin to take on an habitual tone level on the affinity scale, an habitual reaction to almost all people.

 

EMOTION

AFFINITY

Tone 4

Eagerness- exhilaration

Love- strong, outgoing

3.5

Strong interest
Mild interest

Friendliness
Tentative advances

Tone 3

Content

Tolerance without much out- going action - acceptance of advances offered

2.5

Indifference
Boredom

Neglect of person or people
Dislike, attempts to get away from them

Tone 2

Expressed resentment

Antagonism

1.5

Anger
Unexpressed resentment

Hate, violent and expressed
Covert hostility

Tone 1

Fear

Acute Shyness, propitiation, withdrawal from people

0.5

Grief

Supplication, pleas for pity, desperate attempts to win support

0

Apathy

Complete withdrawal from person or people no attempt to contact

Notes on the Lectures 1950